Seasons/Tides Vocabulary

Fill in the blank: ________ is one half of the Earth.

• Hemisphere

• Continent

• Ocean

• Equator

Fill in the blank: ________ are caused by the tilt of Earth on its axis as it revolves around the sun.

• Seasons

• Day and Night

• Tides

• Weather

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Fill in the blank: ________ is the rising and falling of the water level of the oceans due to the pull of gravity of the moon and the sun.

• Tides

• Waves

• Currents

• Ripples

Fill in the blank: ________ is the path of an object that revolves around another object.

• Orbit

• Pathway

• Route

• Trajectory

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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Fill in the blank: ________ is the blocking of sunlight to the Earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the Sun and the Earth.

• Solar Eclipse

• Lunar Eclipse

• Equinox

• Solstice

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Fill in the blank: ________ is the blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when the Earth is directly between the Sun and the Moon.

• Lunar Eclipse

• Solar Eclipse

• New Moon

• Full Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Fill in the blank: ________ is the force of attraction that tends to draw any two objects in the universe together.

• Gravity

• Magnetism

• Friction

• Electricity

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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Fill in the blank: ________ is the imaginary line that passes through Earth’s center and the North and South poles, about which Earth rotates.

• Axis

• Equator

• Meridian

• Tropic

Fill in the blank: ________ is the spinning motion of a planet on its axis.

• Rotation

• Revolution

• Orbit

• Translation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Fill in the blank: ________ is the movement of one object such as a planet or moon as it turns or spins around a central point.

• Revolution

• Rotation

• Orbit

• Spin

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6